Gallery: Some Can Draw Bikes From Memory. Some ... Definitely Can't
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Over the last six years Gianluca Gimini asked more than 500 people to draw a bicycle from memory. The results are interesting, to say the least.
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Bicycles are ubiquitous objects that most kids learn to ride at a young age. It’s a machine that’s been passed down generations, and its utility transcends geography and culture. It should be simple enough to draw one without looking at a picture.
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Think again.
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Gimini, a designer from Bologna, Italy, found an unexpected beauty in these drawings. For his Velocipedia project, he's turned a handful of the weirdest, most impractical ones into realistic renderings of actual bicycles.
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Gimini’s experiment isn’t the first of its kind. A psychologist from the University of Liverpool even has also conducted a test that challenged people to draw a bicycle from memory.
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By putting an artistic spin on the drawings, Gimini's project differs from a psychological test. It is instead a celebration of the ways people can be accidentally creative.
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“People draw some really crazy stuff when they are trying to be totally non-creative and just follow a task,” he says.
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If you've made it this far, go try for yourself: grab a pen and paper, and draw a bicycle. You have two minutes.
